In a further example of its retrenchment the free newspaper company, Metro International, is pulling out of the United States. It has agreed to dispose of its loss-making US papers, which have a combined distribution of 590,000 copies a day

Sweden's four largest newspapers - Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet and Expressen - have jointly launched a campaign to push for the release of Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in Eritrea for 2,742 days

I can't imagine the British government, or the British newspaper industry, following the model for dealing with failing newspapers in Sweden where state subsidies are handed out to papers that lose sales

The Swedish government is thinking about removing the special tax on newspaper advertising, according to the country's culture minister, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, in an article published in Dagens Nyheter. Free dailies could profit from the new rules if they are treated like "real newspapers", though this remains a matter of dispute. (Via Newspaper Innovation)

Sweden's Expressen newspaper published a story on Saturday about the suicide of Anders Göthberg, a guitarist in the band Broder Daniels. But it ran an accompanying picture of the band's former drummer Lars Malmros. The paper quickly apologised for the "discomfort this mix-up has caused". (Via The Local)